17/02/2017 South Today


17/02/2017

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I'm Edward Sault. for the news where you are.

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Three young women have been sentenced for attacking

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a 14-year-old girl with a wheelbrace in a Guildford park

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The victim suffered head injuries and is still

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The women had originally denied using a weapon until messages found

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on their phones revealed they'd discussed

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how to clean the wheelbrace.

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This was an attack with a heavy metal object that left a young girl

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with serious injuries all because of a spat on Facebook.

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D3 defendants, 19-year-old Sophie Burrows,

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19-year-old Lauren Coveney and a 17-year-old girl

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who can't be named for legal reasons, left their 14-year-old

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victim with several head injuries, black eyes, fractured nose

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and bruised ribs and as well as the physical scars,

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Guildford Crown Court heard she also suffers from depression

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Only recently has she started going out again.

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She changed her name on Facebook,

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She don't want no one to know this is what happened to her.

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The court heard in January last year the defendants

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made a considerable journey to come to Stoughton Park in Guildford

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Sophie Burrows brought a 30 centimetre long metal wheelbrace.

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They told the girl to fight and when she threw the first punch,

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the court heard, out of fear and panic,

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they said about her and in the days that follows, they sent

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Lauren Coveney said, it's good, I cut her head open.

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Sophie Burrows said, she chose to fight me.

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But it was electrical communications that eventually led

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to the girls handing themselves into police.

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An immediate appeal was issued following the incident and it

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was the attention on social media that led to the girls eventually

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handing themselves in at Guildford police station.

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At first, they denied using any weapon of any kind

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during the attack that messages were found on all their phones

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mentioning the assault and the crowbar and how to clean it.

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And all three were subsequently charged with GBH.

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Sophie Burrows was sentenced to 14 months

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in a young offenders' institution.

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Lauren Coveney to 12 months suspended for two years.

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The 17-year-old was referred to the youth courts.

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The judge said he gave them credit for their ages, for

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their genuine remorse and for in their guilty pleas

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but he said all this was caused by a ridiculous and stupid

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A man who shot seven cats in less than a fortnight

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in the Guildford and Cranleigh area has been sent to jail for a year.

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Franky Mills from Long Gore in Farncombe shot four cats

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The animal rights charity Peta awarded ?2000

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to a witness who provided registration details of his van.

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A major town centre development in Dorchester has been waved

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through, despite the fact that the 180 new properties will not

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West Dorset District Council has given planning permission

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to a scheme to convert the town's old Victorian prison.

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The developers argued affordable units would damage

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I would have loved to have seen affordable homes on the site.

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We're trying our hardest to put forward

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more homes and affordable homes in West Dorset.

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We're doing everything we can to sustain that.

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A fresh attempt to scrap charges for residents taking DIY waste

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to their local tip has failed in West Sussex.

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The county council says it's introduced a flat rate of ?4

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a bag for any type of DIY waste like like rubble and plasterboard

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Whilst some agree, it's prompted fears from some district councils

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I think the research shows that the councils aren't actually

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looking to profiteer from this but are actually

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they are incurring in the processing of these waste streams.

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They know the problems they've called for local residents

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and I know the problems they have caused for the district

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and borough authorities in West Sussex who have to clear up

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the mess and there is no doubt that fly-tipping is on the increase.

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A couple from Salisbury who've been married for 12 years are hearing

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each other's voices for the first time after having Cochlear implants.

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50-year-old Helen Robinson and her husband Neil,

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who's 54, have been deaf since birth.

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They had their implants switched on at the same time by an auditory

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Half a century without sound, changed with the flick of a switch.

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Neil and Helen have been married since 2005.

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They've both been deaf since birth because of a genetic condition.

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They could hear some muffled noises but now the cochlear implants

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are sending electrical signals directly to the brain

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I love sound and I want to be able to hear more.

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You'll be surprised at what's caught their ears.

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You know the car, when you are changing the indicators on?

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For me, I knit, and when I'm doing the knitting, I can hear

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the needles clacking together and it's a nice sound.

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Their new fifth sense can be overwhelming at times and clinicians

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also have to adjust the volume as Neil and Helen become

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The new device can be switched off,

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I can call her now and also learning to put up with

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That's all from the South Today news team this evening.

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I'm going to be here with your weekend news tomorrow

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at 5:20pm and there's more on the BBC News website.

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Newsnight will be starting shortly on BBC TWO but now Sam

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And shorts. Not quite flip-flopped whether yet but it has been very

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mild. Set to stay that way to the weekend. For tonight, dry and

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cloudy. That cloud as we go through the night breaking here and there

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are so we could see Mr patch is developing by Don. Not a chilly

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night. Not dropping low below six Celsius. A dull morning but as the

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low clouds and missed breaks up we will start to see some bright and

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sunny spells develop especially to the east of the patch and everywhere

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we pleasantly warm in light winds. The height of 11 Celsius. Looking

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ahead to the next few days, Sunday, things started rather damp and grey

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but as the day wears on, conditions improve. We will see bright and

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sunny spells and 12 Celsius will be the top temperature. As we head into

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the new week, Monday warmer still with a top temperature 14 Celsius

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but it will be cloudy. part of next week, we could see 16

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Celsius in a few spots. Here is knit with the National output.

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We have turned things around in the space of a week, with a more

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